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CARBON-PAPER FORM-BOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 3, 191W.

Application filed October 21, 1915. Serial No. 57,125.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD B. TRAUB, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carbon-Paper Form-Books, of which the following is a specification.

The main objects of this invention are to provide an improved arrangement of sheets of carbon paper of various sizes, shapes and formations, so as to render them adapted for use with sets of printed forms wherein cer tain portions of the writing made on the original or uppermost form are to be transferred to or omitted from the other forms underneath; and to provide an improved manner of binding the sheets of carbon paper together so as to insure proper registration thereof with the forms.

An illustrative embodiment of this invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which-.-

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved carbon binder, the sheets being shown separated from each other, so as to more clearly illustrate their differences in shape, size or formation.

Fig. 2 is a reverse detail view of the uppermost sheet of carbon paper of the binder shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a reverse view of the second sheet of carbon.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a set of forms for use with which the carbon binder shown in Fig. 1 is particularly arranged.

Fig. 5 is a detail of the uppermost printed form shown in Fig. 2.

Fig. 6 is a detail of the second printed form.

Fig. 7 is a detail-of the third printed form.

Fig. 8 is a reverse view, of the last sheet of carbon.

Tn systematizing the work of making records of orders, sales, etc., where several copies of difl'erent parts thereof are required, sets of forms have been devised whereby the bulk of the writing required to be made on the original :or uppermost form will be transferred, by the use of carbon paper to the other forms. However, this system has not been applicable in all places nor capable of extensive development for the reason that in most sets of forms certain portions of the some of the other forms in order to make them particularly useful for a specific purpose.

In the construction shown in the drawings, the carbon binder comprises a plurality of superimposed sheets of carbon paper secured to a binder or backing sheet 1, the upper end 2 of which is herein shown to be folded over the ends of the carbon sheets and secured by means of a row of stitching 3. The binder illustrated in Fig. 1 has five sheets of carbon which are numbered 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8.

The carbon sheets 4: and 5 are shorter than the sheets 6, 7 and 8 and otherwise difler therefrom and from each other for reasons hereinafter explained. For instance, the

sheet 4, (Figs. 1 and 2), has a strip or portion 9 at the top thereof, which is entirely free of carbon and the lower right-hand corner is cut away as shown at 10: the sheet also has a cut-out 11. Carbon sheet 5, (Figs. 1 and 3), has a strip 12, between the lines 13 and 14, which is entirely free of carbon. Carbon sheet 8 (Figs. 1 and 8) has a strip or portion 15 which is entirely free of carbon and also the lower rightehand corner is cut away as shown at'lj'fiy ;*Sheets 6 and 7 each have one entire surface covered with carbon.

The set of forms for which this particular binder has been designed is shown in Fig. 4, which comprises six forms numbered 17 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22. The sheet 17, the arran ement of which is more clearly shown in rig. 5, is a sales-slip which it is intended should be made out at the branch office whereat the sale originates. It contains all necessary information regarding the sale, as will be observed from Fig. 5, all of which is to be transferred to some of the other forms, and portions of which are to be omitted from still other;- forms. The second sheet, numbered 18, is'a mill order and a comparison of it, as shown in Fig. 6, with the sheet 17, shown in Fig. 5, clearly illustrates what portions of the original are to' be omitted. Sheet 19, shown in Fig. 7, is an aclmowledgment of thecustomer of his order, which is arranged to have transferred thereto only such portions of the record made on the sales-slip as are pertinent to' such an acknowledgment. Sheet a copy for the main ofice and is arranged-substantially the same as sheet 17 Sheet a branch ofiice copy and is also arranged substantially the same as sheet 17. Sheet 22 is a blank sheet used for some particular purpose in the office system, and is intended to contain all the information with the exception of the pri(1:e quotations, and the charge made by the mil The carbon binder is used by inserting the sheets thereof between the forms, as will be obvious in cases where the forms are fastened together. Where the forms are not fastened together they may be inserted between the sheets of carbon paper, the binder serving to retain them in proper registration. The forms and binder are placed in the typewriting machine and the operator proceeds to write upon the uppermost or sales-sheet the complete information regarding the sale. As this is done it will be noted that by reason of the strip 9, on the carbon sheet 4, being free of carbon, the information regarding the customer and the credit and selling notations are omitted from the mill order 18. Also by reason of the cutouts 10 and 11,the prices made the customer and the amount of commission are omitted from the mill order. Furthermore, the carbon sheet 4 being shorter than the sales slip 17, the information regarding deliver to and special billing instructions is also omitted from the mill order. The uncoated strip 12,0n the carbon sheet 5,registers with the space on the sales-slip between the lines 23 and 24 and thus omits all information regarding the mill order. This sheet also being shorter than the sales-slip 17 does not print on the acknowledgment information regarding deliver to and special billing instructions. The carbon sheets 6 and 7 being the same size as the sales-slip 17 and having no uncoated or cut-out portions, transfers the entire sales-slip record to the main office copy 20 and the branch ofiice copy 21. The uncoated strip 15 on the carbon sheet 8 registers with the information between the lines 23 and 25 (Fig. 5) on the sales-slip 17 and omits from the sheet 22 all such information. Also by virtue of the cut-out 16 the price quoted the customer is omitted.

It will thus be observed that such an arrangement of carbon sheets, as illustrated in Fig. 1, with portions of the sheets being cut out or having carbon omitted therefrom, and having them positively bound together makes it possible to use the binder with a set of forms similar to that shown in Fig. 4, making provision for carbon sheets to be properly and quickly inserted between the printed forms and held in registration therewith so as to insure the proper omissions from or transfer to the several forms of portions of the record made on the original. It also will be observed that the arrangement of the carbon sheets with respect to their size and shape or the portions from which the carbon is omitted is unlimited and can be adapted to practically any set of forms devised for systematizing such class of work.

Although but one specific embodiment of this invention is herein shown and described, it will be understood that numerous details of the construction shown may be altered or omitted without departing from the spirit of this invention as defined by the following claim.

' I claim The combination with a set of forms, of a plurality of sheets of carbon paper bound together along one edge to form a book and arranged so that said sheets are adapted to be inserted between said forms, certain of said sheets having portions cut out and certain of said sheets having portions free of carbon, said free portions being of substantially the same thickness as the carbonized portions of such sheet, all being arranged whereby portions of the writing on the uppermost form are omitted from other forms underneath, substantially-as described.

Signed at Chicago this 15th day of October, 1915.

EDWARD B. TRAUB. 

